Unit 4 Green World
The birth of a science
Type of lessons: Reading
Teaching aims: 1.To improve the Ss’ reading skills on biography.
2. To help the Ss to know how to get the main idea and detailed information correctly.
Teaching contents: 1.To learn something about some scientists.
2. To focus on a great scientist Joseph Banks.
3. To do an familiar reading exercise of NMET
Key points: To improve the Ss’ reading skills on biography.
Teaching aids: Textbooks, radio, recorder, projector, and computer
Teaching procedures:
Pre-reading
Show two pictures to Ss and ask them if they know something about the classification of botany
What are they?
Do they look the same at the first sight?
In botany, do they belong to the same group?
While-reading
Step 1 Fast reading for the answers to the above questions.
1) Ask the Ss to read the first paragraph and get the answers to
the questions.
2). Ask a student to give the answer and the reason.
Step2 Detailed reading for the facts
1) How many people are mentioned in the first paragraph?
(some scientists and Carl Linnaeus)
2) Ask the Ss to read the first paragraph carefully and match the following facts with the people

















Step 3 Reading for the rest paragraphs and find out the main idea of the six paragraphs.
1. Ask Ss to go over paragraph 2-7 for some detailed information.
How many people are mentioned? Who are they?
(4, Carl Linnaeus, Daniel Solander, Joseph Banks, James Cook)
What are the six paragraphs mainly talk about?
(Joseph Banks)

2. Read paragraph 2-7 again and find out the sequence of the following sentences according to the text. (Ask the Ss to do it individually first, then to share their answers with their partners)
① Banks helped to develop the royal gardens at Kew into one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world.
② In London Solander developed a life long friendship with Joseph Banks.
③ Banks made a first journey to study wild plants.
④ Banks moved crops from one continent to another on a large scale.
⑤ James cook and Joseph Banks had an expedition to Tahiti.
Answers: (②③⑤④①)
Step 4 Detailed- reading for specific information of Banks:
1. Ask the Ss to find out the relationship between the 4 scientists in pares.








Friends, teacher ,student, coworkers, supporter,
(Carl Linnaeus was the teacher of Solander; Solander and Joseph Banks were good friends; James Cook was the captain of Endeavor through which Solander and Banks made their research on botany; Banks fulfilled Linnaeus’s research on botany)
2. Work in groups of four and complete the information about Joseph Banks using key words in the text.
Joseph Banks
Time
Events
Achievements
1743
Was born
/
1759
Developed a lifelong friendship with Solander
/
1766
Made a first journey
/
1768
Made an expeditionvoyage with James Cook and studied new plants he found…
The first move crops from …to …; develop ….
1778
Was elected president of the Royal Society
/
1778-1820
Helped to develop; accumulated…; grew strawberries …; built a greenhouse …
Made Kew a centre of…
Post-reading
Step 1 Have the Ss to summarize the main idea of the text.
What was Joseph Banks?
What kind of person do you think Joseph Banks is?
(Brave, hardworking, friendly, contributive…
Ss had better to find the evidences in the text.)
Step 2 Help the Ss to summarize the way to write a biography.
What should we write when we write about a person?
(B
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